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Peter Townend (novelist)
Peter (Robert Gascoigne) Townend (6 March 1935 – 6 June 1999was a thriller writer, photographer, bit-part actor and journalist. Life and work Townend was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, Westminster and St Pauls, London. He won an open classics scholarship to study classics at Christs College, Cambridge where he became part of future thriller writer Alan Williams's entourage. He dressed in the then fashionable style of "Teddy Boy". After graduating he dabbled in filmmaking, getting small parts in films and plays He eventually moved to Spain, befriending many expatriates including Gerald Brenan and famous transsexual April AshleyWhile there, he co-founded ''Look Out'Spain's first English-language literary and travel magazine. Essentially a two-man operation, the magazine had Townend editing, art directing and writing features. He also did the magazine's photography, a hobby he relished. Townend's own photography appears in several books: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's 1992 bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Williams (novelist)
Alan Emlyn Williams (28 August 1935 – 21 April 2020) was an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. Personal life He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in modern languages. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. Noël Coward was his godfather. His younger brother Brook (1938–2005) was also an actor. Journalist Philippa Toomey described him as a "talented and funny mimic with a gift for words and a stock of tales from the shaggy Express story to the grimmer side of international journalism."Toomey, Philippa. "Tilting at windmills", ''London Times'', 8 July 1978, p. 12. He had three children. Owen (born 1977) and Laura (born 1980) with his first wife, Antonia (née Simpson). He then married literary agent Maggie Noach and their daughter Sophie was born in 1989. Together they compiled ''The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts''. Journalism, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |